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Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.

Brandi Carlile

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Brandi Carlile
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: June 1
Composer
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Ravensdale
Washington
Brandi M. Carlile
Brandi Marie Carlile
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All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.
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You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.
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I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.
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Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
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So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be so brazen as to assume that it's the only problem but there's got to be a reason that a martial artist can harness enough peace to smash his head through a cinder block without leaving a scratch.
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But I'm warning you, we're growing up.
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You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.
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There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It's a little bit dangerous, because you'll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation.
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My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.
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I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.
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People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.
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The mole can't live in your dollhouse.
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I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.
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I used to turn to nature and animals a lot. And fishing. I spend time still with my Bible and the gospel music, and I still have to feed the animals! But my wife and daughter have brought me a world of perspective when I'm feeling just a little extra important.
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Cousins are forever and forever are cousins they stand by your side for you no matter what.
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In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.
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It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.
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My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.
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I believe that writing for me is in a way like wisdom in that as soon as you feel like you've got it figured out you stop growing and maybe even lose something.
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